open sea

Chapter 101 Battleship
Like Wang Zhi, Baldy Li was the first Japanese pirate to enter the sea. He occupied the island together with Deng Liao and Yao Da. The island became the largest pirate port in East Asia.

Eighty percent of the silk and porcelain produced in Zhejiang and Fujian flowed into Shuangyu, forming a commercial route to Japan, Shuangyu, and Malacca. Sea merchants and pirates from various countries traded in Shuangyu Port in a single day. The amount of transactions reached 10 taels of silver.

This is what Long Junxiong heard from the rumors of Japanese pirates. Whether it is all exaggeration or not, no one knows.

But what is certain is that Baldy Li collected rent on Shuangyu, handed over Shuangyu Port to Fanyi, and they built schools, churches, and hospitals on the island, and they collected taxes from everyone else. Shuangyu Port is extremely prosperous.

The smuggling port at the gate of the Ming Dynasty must not last long. The governor of Fujian ordered 380 warships and [-] soldiers to enter Shuangyu, winning a complete victory, and blocking the stone to destroy the port.

Baldy Li was also captured and killed by the army during that battle.

It's miserable when you think about it, a person who has made a great career is supposed to be considered a person, and he died without even seeing his unborn son.

Chen Mu thought about it later, 20 years later, his son was guarding eight small broken boats in Haojingao, dreaming of conquering the sea, and he could be regarded as the son of a pirate family inheriting his father's career.

This time Fu Yuan was sent to Haojing without any delay, but hurried back in five days to tell Chen Mu what he saw.

"57 people, including males and females, old and young. There are nineteen survivors from Japan, North Korea, Frangji, and Manlaga, and the rest are Ming people." Fu Yuan still remembered a few days ago Chen Mu was displeased by not doing a good job, and with an apologetic smile, he presented the map of Haojing respectfully, saying: "Although they are old, weak, sick and disabled, even women know how to practice bird guns. The mirror is very powerful, the beggars in Haojing and the leader of the Lifu group all listen to him."

"This picture was drawn by Li Dan. Look at Qianhu, it's really detailed!"

The so-called line has an old man, and a group has a group leader, so they have to be the leaders of the folk industry.

Although they may not be highly respected, they have high prestige in the industry, and the social status of the heads of all walks of life is different.

Needless to say, the head of Zhejiang Silk Manufacturing Company must be a local wealthy businessman, and the head of Haojing beggar must also be sitting on the ground begging for food, and the status naturally varies greatly.

"In this way, they still have the ability." Chen Mu opened the map casually, looked at the familiar and unfamiliar composition on it, and smiled, "These are pictures obtained by some people, and they are quite detailed."

Haojing is not big, but it's not small either. Although I don't know how those Japanese pirates got this map, the composition is fine enough, not only roughly drawing the topography of the island, but also showing the activity areas of several parties.

The Folangji people built a lot of construction in the south of Haojing, and the north was the territory of Ming Dynasty marine merchants and pirates. It was facing the east of Guangzhou Mansion, where the officials who guarded Macao and the people of Haojing lived.

A small island with two ports.

This is not only the commercial prosperity of Haojingao, but also shows that the Ming Dynasty's dominance over this land has been minimized.

He clearly saw that this piece of land was in front of him, but he didn't even have soldiers to guard him on the island.

The more you look at it, the more annoying it is!

"Forget about Haojingao, what do they think? You have seen that Li Dan." Chen Mu took Fu Yuan out of the main hall of the Qianhu Yamen. Two courtyard walls away, he could still hear the soldiers firing guns led by Qi Zhengyan. The voice of drill, "Can they be used by me?"

"This, it all depends on the decision of thousands of households, how can a humble official dare to say for sure."

Fu Yuan said with a smile: "However, their situation is not good, and their words are full of worries about the troubles caused by the Fanyi. They have no food, and the whole Haojingao has no food. Once the imperial court gets stuck with food, Franji's men will have food on board." It won't last long, the Japanese pirates stationed at sea will not do it, and Haojing will be in chaos."

"You've brought back some useful news! Go and call Shangjiabing, the warship dispatched by Dusi to Qianhusuo is here."

The lack of food in Haojingao is considered good news. Although Fu Yuan thought of Chen Mu as soon as he mentioned it, it is still easy to be ignored.With such a large land, tens of thousands of Fanyi and tens of thousands of local people are fed. Once the imperial court bans food and grass, it will run out of food in less than three months.

"I've been worrying a lot lately. Maybe I can feel relieved when I go to see the warship dispatched by the imperial court."

The reason why Chen Mu is in a bad mood is very simple. Now his subordinates urgently need a banner army to support the scene. He originally wanted Shao Tingda to practice the hundred and ten officers in the guard, and he even made up his mind to choose two of them. A small flag can be used as the main force of the flag army.

Can't choose, Xiangshan is not the same as Qingyuanwei, it's not so closed, if you are really strong and swim south at night, you will be Haojing, and it's much more comfortable to be a pirate than to be a flag soldier, so stay The net is old, weak, sick and disabled, and this is only one aspect.

Subjectively, they did not have the innate qualities to become elite soldiers, and the objective environment did not allow Chen Mu to let them train soldiers.

After practicing for two days, Shi Qi left a blunderbuss player with a small flag to take the blunderbuss, and the remaining 120 people followed Lou Qimai to go to Xiangshan County to go to the Jiuduyifang road outside Huangliangdu. The hut is gone.

Xie Ming, who is both a teacher and a chief accountant, did the calculations for Mr. Chen who hired him. The nearly 1 troops were mixed with fertile land and wasteland, and their efficiency was extremely poor. The [-] mu of land has been planted, and they have been sleeping beside the field road at night.

The rest of the army had no energy left to build thatched huts, and Zhou Xing, the county magistrate, was busy in Xiangshan County recruiting ordinary people and prison inmates who could not live on to fill the banner army.

When Zhou Xing hooks up the army, they must have a place to live when they come over, otherwise they will die of discomfort if they run away in three days just after hooking up the flag army.

What's more, there are a lot of other problems, the guards are short of armaments, the weapons and guns are only enough to arm a hundred people, and the arsenal is so clean that mice don't want to stay longer, there are many uncomfortable things.

Xiangshanwei is not far from the ferry where the boat can be parked. The closer to the ferry, the greater Chen Mu's expectations for the shape of the warship sent by the imperial court.

In the past few days at Qianhusuo, he has often looked at the river from the arrow tower. Every day, there are all kinds of Ming and Yi ships coming from the city ships and tax offices on the outskirts of the south gate of Guangcheng. Go, now he will also get his own ship, a warship.

Approaching the ferry, Chen Mu, who was riding a horse, looked towards the middle of the river, where five fast boats were parked at the ferry.

His eyes were dimmed, and five flat-bottomed flat-headed boats docked side by side in shallow water came into his eyes, and the Bailiao Xiaozhan, which was less than six feet long and nine feet wide, parked there safely.

The old-fashioned small sails and big oars, even a short-range gun like a Francophone, can't stand it, and a full flag wants to take two boats.

If this is the case alone, Chen Mu won't feel sad—the five fast boats are clearly docked on the sea farther away, the ten-foot-long gunboat belonging to Fanyi!
He wanted the big guy, not the little stuff!
"Chen Qianhu, please get on board!" The soldiers and sailors on the boat couldn't see the deep disappointment in Chen Mu's eyes, and clasped their fists and shouted, "It's not easy for a big boat to come in and get out, Chen Shoubei is waiting for you at the Shipping Department!"

And big ships?

Chen Mu stepped forward quickly, with anticipation in his eyes.
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The Portuguese Fernán Mendes Pinto recorded in "A Long Journey": "Three hundred Chinese galleons, eighty brigantines, and an army of [-] attacked Portuguese villages in the early morning. were destroyed and razed to the ground'.

　Good morning, Pinto is a man who can really exaggerate.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)